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Why is his prose so good ? 2017-06-17 03:00:14 Post No. 9646744
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I turned face-up on the slab of stone, gazed at the sky, and thought about all the man-made satellites spinning around the Earth. The horizon was still etched in a faint glow, and stars began to blink on in the deep, wine-coloured sky. I gazed among them for the light of a satellite, but it was still too bright out to spot one with the naked eye. The sprinkling of stars looked nailed to the spot, unmoving. I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the Earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
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The way they do Japanese translation isn't even sentence by sentence, let alone word for word. The original for a paragraph like that might have had the last sentence first or five extra sentences or five less. To even talk about an author's "prose" with Japanese translations is an insult to the translator and yourself.
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>>9646744
>wine-colored
Anyone know if it is true that the ancients could not see blue as we do. In Icelandic and old English there was one word for both yellow and red.
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>>9646744
I think DFW probably weighed around 235lbs. What a slob.
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>>9646779
Adjusting for his height that's not too bad
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>>9646794
How tall was he? I'm 6'4" 235 and I'm a fucking slob.
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>>9646794
His BMI looks off the charts. You have to have an extreme lack of self control to consider marijuana addictive.
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